Double Blind Trials
These activities demonstrate how double blind trials are run, explaining what a placebo is and how the placebo effect works, how bias is removed as far as possible and how participants and trial medicines are randomised.
Curriculum Links
- KS3: Science
- KS4: Biology
- SQA Access, Intermediate and Higher: Biology
Key words
- double-blind trials
- observer bias
- placebo effect
- placebo
- randomisation
- clinical trials
- designing a fair trial
Activities
- Placebo Effect
- Observer Bias
- Double Blind Trial